Compute
AMD Finally Reaps The Fortunes It Has Sown
Sometimes, competing for business means coming up with better products than your rivals. …
FPGA
Code
Now Comes The Hard Part, AMD: Software
From the moment the first rumors surfaced that AMD was thinking about acquiring FPGA maker Xilinx, we thought this deal was as much about software as it was about hardware. …
Compute
Chip Roadmaps Unfold, Crisscrossing And Interconnecting, At AMD
After its acquisitions of ATI in 2006 and the maturation of its discrete GPUs with the Instinct line from the past few years and the acquisitions of Xilinx and Pensando here in 2022, AMD is not just a second source of X86 processors. …
Compute
AMD Roadmaps Lead To Mountains Of Money
IT organizations, especially the key hyperscalers and cloud builders, don’t buy point products, they buy roadmaps. …
Compute
Can AMD Keep Doubling Its Datacenter Business?
Imagine, if you will, that AMD could make as many Epyc CPUs and Instinct GPU accelerators as it wanted at a reasonable yield and cost. …
Compute
A Cornucopia Of Memory And Bandwidth In The Agilex-M FPGA
When it comes to memory for compute engines, FPGAs – or rather what we have started calling hybrid FPGAs because they have all kinds of hard coded logic as well as the FPGA programmable logic on a single package – have the broadest selection of memory types of any kind of device out there. …
Compute
Groq Buys Maxeler For Its HPC And AI Dataflow Expertise
When it comes to application acceleration, having a deep understanding of the complex algorithms that underly most HPC and AI applications is perhaps the most important thing that can be brought to bear. …
Compute
What Will AMD Do With Programmable Logic And Other Xilinx IP?
AMD has finished its acquisition of Xilinx, which ended up costing close to $49 billion instead of the original $35 billion projected when the deal was announced in October 2020 thanks to the rise of AMD’s shares over the past year and a half. …
Compute
Xilinx Benefits From Intel FPGA Shortages
As AMD is getting closer to closing its $35 billion acquisition of FPGA maker Xilinx, it is natural to think about how well that business is doing and how it is competing against its main rival, Intel – specifically, the Programmable Solutions Group, formerly known as the free-standing Altera before the latter was acquired by Intel in June 2015 for $16.7 billion. …
AI
Xilinx Works From The Edge Towards Datacenters With Versal FPGA Hybrids
The “Everest” family of hybrid compute engines made by Xilinx, which have lots of programmable logic surrounded by hardened transistor blocks and which are sold under the Versal brand, have been known for so long that we sometimes forget – or can’t believe – that Versal chips are not yet available as standalone products in the datacenter or within the Alveo line of PCI-Express cards from the chip maker. …